Click here for Mestechki of Minsk Gubernia which displays all (113) towns with the administrative designation mestechko from an original list of over 14,000 settlements in Minsk Gubernia, by Michael Steinore

Click here for Minsk District Historic/Economic Summaries, provided by the Minsk Historical Genealogical Group

Click here for Minsk gubernia page of the Belarus SIG. Includes a list of all the known shtetls for this gubernia.

Click here for Poor population among towns in Minsk Guberniya - 1905, by Vitaly Charny

Click here for records for the Grodno and Minsk gubernia that are in the Brest State Archive

Click here for some 1860 Minsk Vedomosti Foreign Travel Notices, by A.L. Bell. Here are some samples of 'Departing for the Border' (foreign travel) notices.

Click here for the 1903 and 1911 Vsia Rossiia - Minsk Gubernia - data compiled by members of the Belarus SIG

Click here for the Department of the National Belarus Library in Minsk

Click here for the 'Hebrew' Korobochniks in the Minsk Gubernya in the Late 1839s - businessmen who had successfully bid for the right to collect the 'Box tax', or taxes on the sale of kosher meat , by A.L. Bell

Click here for the 'Hebrew' Leaseholders in the Minsk Gubernya in the Late 1839s, by A.L. Bell

Click here for the Inventory of certain files (mainly Slutsk and Novogrudok uyezds) in the National Historical Archives of Belarus (NHAB) in Minsk

Click here for the Jewish agricultural colonies in Western Russia, prior to 1904, by Lou Goldman

Click here for the Jewish Population for Towns in Minsk Guberniya - 1897-1898, by Vitaly Charny

Click here for the Minsk Ghetto: An Issue of Jewish Resistance, by Leonid Smilovitsky

Click here for the Minsk gubernia administrative divisions, by Vitaly Charny. Required reading for anyone doing research in this area.

Click here for the Minsk History, From 'Minsk: a Historical Guide' by Guy Picarda

Click here for the Minsk Voter List FAQ, Minsk Gubernia Duma Lists to be translated by the Belarus SIG

Click here for Volosts and most important settlements of the Empire, 1884, provided by Vitaly Charny

Many of these
works were provided by Vitaly Charny. Vitaly, a native of Minsk,
Belarus, has been generously sharing his transliterations of surnames in the Family
History Library's Minsk records. If you have further questions regarding specific
surnames on these lists, please contact Vitaly Charny.
You may also go to your local Family History Library and order the appropriate
microfilm to view.

Uyezd of the Minsk gubernia

Bobruisk

Click here for Bobruisk uyezd surnames, by Vitaly Charny. A list of over 1800 surnames, and the Bobruisk uyezd town where each surname has been mentioned.